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Reading Glasses

Ep 279 - Halloween Sporror Special with Clay McLeod Chapman!

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Hobbies, Advice, Education, Author, Book, Leisure, How To, Audiobook, Reading, Arts, Book Tech, Books, Library, Writer

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about sporror (mushroom horror) for Halloween! They also interview Clay McLeod Chapman about why mushrooms are scary, and give advice on reviewing books you don’t like by authors you want to support. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

0:13.6

to help you read better.

0:14.6

I'm author and book to power, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

0:19.1

This episode…

0:20.1

Hey!

0:21.1

Happy Halloween?

0:22.1

Weak.

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Mallory.

0:24.1

Halloween Weak!

0:25.1

We're talking about a new kind, a new genre, a genre we have taken notice of.

0:30.9

And it is called Sporer, that's mushroom-themed horror, folks.

0:36.5

Get excited.

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Oh, yeah.

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We're talking about that.

0:39.5

And we're interviewing Powell of the show, Past Guests of the Show, Clay McLeod Chapman.

0:43.1

The first?

0:44.1

What are you reading, Bria?

0:45.1

I just started a book that I feel like the glasses are going to enjoy.

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It is called Small Town Big Magic.

0:51.3

I thought it was a good Halloween-y sort of read.

0:54.6

It has almost…

0:55.6

I bought this book recently just because of the title.

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